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India played a three-day warm-up match against Essex before the Test series and this has drawn the ire of several former players who slammed&nbsp;the team for being undercooked in the Test series. However, the England coach said that even when his team travels abroad, they face a similar issue and they find it difficult to squeeze in too many practice games before the Testmatches....

Gautam Gambhir believes that the Indian cricket team were outplayed by England in all sectors and they need to improve ahead of the third Testmatch in Nottingham... Gautam Gambhir criticised the Indian cricket team for their ‘lack of fight’ during the second Testmatch against England at Lord’s ... “The way we lost the Testmatch was very disturbing ... They should take one Testmatch at a time,” he said....

After India's loss in the second Testmatch&nbsp;against England, there is finally something positive for the visitors ... He had also missed out on the first two Testmatches ... the Test series ... Virat Kohli, on the other hand, is still recuperating from the back strain and is on a race against time to achieve match fitness ahead of the third Testmatch....

England coach Trevor Bayliss has defended India's much-criticised preparation for the ongoing Test series, saying the beleaguered visitors couldn't have fit in more practice than what they did before the disastrous first two games. India trail 0-2 in the five-match series, which will continue in Nottingham with the third Test starting Saturday ...Ben Stokes set to miss 3rd Test, likely to sit out remainder of India-England series....

Stokes missed the match to face a hearing in ...England thumped India by an innings and 159 runs in the second test at Lord’s on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series ... Joe Root promises ruthless streak after Lord’s Test victory....

Stokes' absence from the Lord's Test, however, did not affect England in the second game, with fellow all-rounder Chris Woakes striking his maiden century and putting in a man-of-the-match performance....

As India continue to struggle in the ongoing five-matchTest series in England, ...Disappointed with India's comprehensive defeat in England, Ganguly criticised the way their batsmen got out inside 80 overs of a Testmatch ... Murali Vijay has played around 60 Testmatches, Shikhar Dhawan also has a good experience but he was dropped after the first Test....

"One bad Testmatch doesn't make a bad cricket team, not at all," Jones remarked at the launch of Star Sports' campaign for the Unimoni Asia Cup here today. At present, India are 0-2 down in the five-matchTest rubber after losing the first two contests at Birmingham and Lord's ... "The stats proved that the ball moved in this (Lord's) Testmatch more than any other Testmatch in last three years anywhere in the world....

India suffered an innings-and-159 runs defeat against England in the second Test at Lord's to go 0-2 down in the five-match series ... Kohli, who suffered back spasms during the second Test, also lost his number one position in the ICCTest rankings for batsmen, dropping to second after a forgettable performance in the match....

The Indian team lost the opening two Tests of the ongoing five-match series by heavy margins with the much-vaunted batting being a major letdown ... The third Test starts this Saturday in Nottingham, following which the Indian team for the remaining two matches would be named....

Indian leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal opined that the Indian team still has an opportunity to make a comeback in the ongoing five-matchTest series against England, which they are trailing 0-2 ... Reflecting on his chances of being picked up for the last two Tests of the ongoing series against England, the squad for which is yet ......

India vs England, 2nd Test... Tendulkar’s first ton came exactly 28 years ago, in the 2nd Test between India and England at Old Trafford, in which he saved the match for his side ... Not only did he saved the match for India, he also became the third youngest player to score a Test hundred, at 17 years, 112 days old. Out of 51 Test centuries in his career, Tendulkar scored 7 against England, in 32 matches....

The Indian team lost the opening two Tests of the ongoing five-match series by heavy margins with the much-vaunted batting being a major let-down ... The third Test starts this Saturday in Nottingham, following which the Indian team for the remaining two matches would be named....